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RELIGIOUS AND MORAL INSTITUTIONS.
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GLASGOW FOUNDRY BOYS' RELIGIOUS
SOCIETY.
Instituted 1865.
The Society lias for its object the religious, educa-
tional, and social elevation of the boys and girls of
Glasgow. Membership — 21,000 bo3's and girls, and
2412 voluntary workers. It has 88 branches in the
city and suburbs.
Honorary President — His Grace The Duke of
Argyll, K.T., KG.
Honorary vice-Presidents — Rev. Joseph Brown,
D.D., Rev. D. Macleod, D.D., Eev. James M'Ewen,
M.A., Eev. Thos. Adamson, B.D., Eev. Thos. Debbie,
Rev. Jas. Brown, M.A., Eev. John Orr, Eev. Geo. C.
Milne, Hon. John Muir, Lord Provost, Sir Jas. King,
Bart., LL.D., Sir Wm. Collins, Sir J. Neilson Cuth-
bertson, Sir John Burns, Bart., Jas, Campbell, J.
Campbell White, and J. S. Napier.
Directors — Samuel Chisholm, president; John Col-
tart, vice-president; Wm. Hislop, treasurer, 162 St.
Vincent St. ; Jas. Williamson, secretary, 124 Bath
Street ; George Hunter, J. R. Sandilands, Thomas
Macnair, James Dick, Alexander MacKeith, J. L.
Selkirk, William J. H. Adam, And. M. Niven, Jas.
Kirkland, R. Fotheringham, H. K. Bromhead, T. S.
Brown, Jas. Lockie, A. Sinclair, jun., W. G. Steven,
Thomas For.^yth, Wm. Martin, Charles Keay, Thos.
Kay, and Alexander Brander, directors. Committee
Rooms, The Christian. Institute, 70 Bothwell street.
GLASGOW ABSTAINERS' UNION.
Schemes of operation. — Sabbath Evening Sermons,
St. Andrew's Hall; City Hall and St. Andrew's Hall
Saturday Evening Concerts; Morning Coffee Stands
on the Streets ; Band of Hope ; Penny Savings Banks ;
Temperance Library; Tract Distribution; Female Mis-
sionaries on the " Missing Link " system ; Sea Side
Convalescent Home for the Poor; Recreation for the
People, &o., &c. James Airlie, secretary, 134 Well-
iTigton Street (corner of Bath Street).
"CHILDREN OF ZION " CHURCH,
70 Great Wellington St. (Paisley Ed. Toll).
Elder Robert Ewing, pastor; W. B. M'Farlane,
secretary.
Their mottoes are truth, temperance, charity, pm-e
religion, and practical Christianity. Their hope — the
promises made unto the fathers, combined with the
restitution of all things at the coming of the Messiah.
GLASGOW PEACE AND INTERNATIONAL
ARBITRATION SOCIETY.
President, Jas. Henderson, Esq., Glenval, Pollok-
shields; vice-president, Wm. Hamilton, Esq., J.P.,
Belmar Terrace, Pollokshields; secretary and treasurer,
William James Begg, writer, 150 Hope Street.
The objects of this Society are to promote peace
on earth and goodwill among men, to discountenance
war, to advocate general disarmament, and to insist
on the adoption of arbitration or other reasonable
and humane methods in the settlement of inter-
national disputes. All persons willing to promote
the Society's objects are eligible for membership.
Contributions voluntary.
The secretary will be glad to arrange for lectures
and to furnish additional information.
THE SCOTTISH TEMPERANCE LEAGUE.
Office, 108 Hope Street.
Object — The entire abolition of the drinking system.
Sir William CoUins, J.P., D.L., president ; Rev. J.
Brown, D.D., Eev. Ales. V/allace, D.D., Eev. W. Eeid,
D.D., Eev. David Russell, D.D., Eev. Professor F.
Ferguson, M.A., D.D., Rev. James Stewart, M.A.,
Eev. Wm. Ritchie, D.D., Rev. J. C. Burns, D.D., Rev.
J. C. Russell, D.D., Rev. Geo C. Hutton, D.D., Messrs.
A. Allan, J.P., R. Lockhart, D. J. Macfie, J.P.,
Alex. P. Forrester-Paton, G. M'Callum, J.P., John
Wilson, M.P., J.P., Peter M'Lagan, M P., George
Smith, A. H. Maclean, J.P., James Guthrie, J.P.,
Sir Andrew Maclean, Knt., J. P., James Johnston, A.
Cameron Corbett, M.P., ex-Provost James Clark,
J.P., ex-Provo3t James Shaw, J. P., Neil Carmichael,
M.D., A. S. Cook, Cuthbert Nairn, ex-Bailie R.
Cranston, J.P., Alex. Thomson, D. Colville, J. P., W.
Cairney, ex-Provost Campbell, J.P., ex-Provost
Moncur, vice-presidents ; Messrs. William Wallace,
William Ure, Alex. Lamberton, David Arthur, David
Anderson, T. Dunnachie, Francis Spite, J. Mowat,
David Fortune, Rev. James A. Johnston, Rev. Geo.
Gladstone, Rev. Wm. Ross, Rev. J. J. Mackay, M.A.,
A. P. Brown, Adam K. Rodger, Duncan Ferguson,
John Lang, Thos. Davidson, W. G. Smeal, Andrew
Forbes, A. J. Hunter, Dr. E. Wilson Bruce, H. Steveo,
and R. Cameron, directors ; Rev. Jas. A. Johnston,
chairman; D. Anderson, vice-chairman; A. Lamber-
ton, treasurer; W. Johnston, secretary.
WEST COAST MISSION ; OE, THE SOCIETY
FOR THE PEOMOTION OF EELIGION IN
THE WEST HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF
SCOTLAND.
This mission was instituted in 1855. Its object
is the spread of the Gospel amongst the scattered
population of the western islands of Scotland. There
are thirty agents engaged in this work. Its funda-
mental principles are evangelical and nnsectarian.
Office-bearers for 1892 — President, His Grace the
Duke of Argyll ; vice-presidents, Duncan Darroch,
Esq., of Torriden, Rev. Jas. Black, D. D.; directors.
Revs. Dr. Marshall Lang, Dr. Black, Dr. M'Callum,
Eev. C. M'Ewing, Rev. Wm. Ross, Eev. Thomas
Adamson, Eev. D. M. Connell, Eev. J. D. M'CuUocli,
Dr. Hugh Thomson ; interim treasurer, Mr. D. Camp-
bell, 70 Wellington street ; secretary and superin-
tendent, Miss A. K. Rintoul, 200 Buchanan street.
THE GLASGOW SOCIAL UNION.
President, The Hon. the Lord Provost ; vice-presi-
dents. Sir James King, Bart, LL.D., Sir J. N. Cuth-
bertson. Rev. Donald Macleod, D.D., Prof. J. G.
M'Kendrick, M.D.,F.E.S., ex-Bailie E. M. Mitchell ;
hon. treasurer, Robert Gourlay, Bank of Scotland, 2
St. Vincent Place ; hon. secretary, D. M. Stevenson,
12 Waterloo Street.
The general objects of the Society are : to encourage
friendly association among those engaged in social
work in Glasgow, to promote sympathetic fellowship
between the well-to-do inhabitants and their poorer
fellow-citizens, and to improve the physical, moral,
and social condition of the latter. All willing to
assist in advancing the above objects are eligible for
membership, and societies working on similar lines
are eligible for affiliation.